In a right ordering of public affairs, the mass is that part which does not act of itself. Such is its mission. It has come into the world to be directed, influenced, represented, organized … It needs to submit its life to a higher court, formed of the superior minorities. …but without them, humanity…
Memory, is what we call the minds re-membering of past experience, of what we did, saw or heard. Memory is not an exact replication of a past event. Memory like everything else the mind/body does, serves the survival of the organism. I will always remember the announcement of yesterday, the Supreme Court ruling eliminating…
It’s difficult to “move on” from the drama of Memorial Day. Though a day of remembrance, certainly the fact of war is impossible to dismiss as the fighting, the random death of the battle for Dombas furiously unfolds in Ukraine. I shudder, my imagination cannot trace the paralyzing terror which the Ukrainian soldiers and…
I write in the morning, seated at Starbucks, enveloped in the buzz of townspeople conversing around me. Most linger here for as long as it takes the barista to fill their drink order. Some like myself stay for a while. I recognize many and know some, the regulars. At the corner of State…
We Americans are “stuck in a ditch”, “out of gas”, “can’t find the keys.” Use any metaphor that comes to mind to describe an impasse. The automobile, “the invention” of the 20th century, is the indispensable means of transportation. How many idioms do we have to express the helpless feeling of being unable to…
It is Monday morning. I am in a hotel room in Springfield Missouri. Unaccountably I slept well last night. There is much to subvert a good night’s sleep, the bits and pieces of “the news” that one would rather not think about. Often the knowledge of things I would rather not say out loud,…
That Madman Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: “I am looking for God! I am looking for God!” As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have…
It is Thursday. A morning sun shines in brilliance. Nature is awakens ! I can feel it. If you are a church-going person, today would be Maundy Thursday, a commemoration of the “last supper.” Perhaps you remember the painting by Leonardo da Vinci? How ironic that an aspect of that final week, was a…
I have never been a Led Zeppelin fan. Taste in music, taste in art has nothing to do with reason. It comes down to serendipity, the genre’s of music that one is exposed to by accident of your time and place in this world. That’s all. There’s no independent baseline of measure, when it…
I watched the Grammy’s Award Show. I am an “old guy” so I knew in advance most of the show content would be barely understood. Music is the voice of a generation. Several generations and more have come into being since mine was up and coming. The Boomer generation was the one born right…
